THE SAMATHA TRUST

Registered charity 1179867 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Founded in 1973, The Samatha Trust is a Charitable Incorporated Organisation which fosters practice and study in the Samatha-Vipassana tradition.The Samatha Trust offers local weekly classes and residential meditation courses as well as online meditation classes and meetings.

Objects

THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE BUDDHIST RELIGION.

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity maintains a healthy financial position with unrestricted funds totaling £990,456, which exceed the previous year's balance of £963,890. The organization reports that donations are sufficient to meet the running costs of its centres and residential courses. There are no disclosed material uncertainties or risks to its ability to continue as a going concern.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold); recorded price paid £675k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): instagram

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (17/01/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• ROBERT ADKINSchair
• Amber Kathryn Hatch
• Angeline Woods
• CHARLES SHAW
• CHRIS GILCHRIST
• Deborah Raikes
• Dr Charles King
• Dr Mark Antony Rowlands
• Dr Paul Dennison
• Frances Warren
• Gwilym Wright
• Nicola Elizabeth Breach
• Professor JOHN ELSNER · trustee of 1 other charity
• Sarah Anne Yorke

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Germany · Netherlands · Throughout England

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with SATIPANYA BUDDHIST TRUST.

• SATIPANYA BUDDHIST TRUST income £123k
• VIPASSANA TRUST (DHAMMA SUKHAKARI) income £546k
• VIPASSANA TRUST income £1.4m
• THE MEDITATION TRUST income £171k
• SAMADHI RETREAT CENTRE income £238k
• SAMR TRUST income £278k

Side by side with its peers

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